The Buddhist dead  practices, discourses, representations /  [electronic resource] : 
edited by Bryan J. Cuevas and Jacqueline I. Stone. 
 - Honolulu :  University of Hawai'i Press,  c2007. 
 - x, 491 p. :  ill. 
 - Studies in East Asian Buddhism ;  20 .
 - Studies in East Asian Buddhism ;  no. 20. .
<br/><br/> "A Kuroda Institute book." 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/>The Buddha's funeral / John S. Strong -- Cross-dressing with the dead : asceticism, ambivalence, and institutional values in an Indian monastic code / Gregory Schopen -- The moment of death in Daoxuan's vinaya commentary / Koichi Shinohara -- The secret art of dying : esoteric deathbed practices in Heian Japan / Jacqueline I. Stone -- The deathbed image of Master Hongyi / Raoul Birnbaum -- Dying like Milarépa : death accounts in a Tibetan hagiographic tradition / Kurtis R. Schaeffer -- Fire and the sword : some connections between self-immolation and religious persecution in the history of Chinese Buddhism / James A. Benn -- Passage to fudaraku : suicide and salvation in premodern Japanese Buddhism / D. Max Moerman -- The death and return of Lady Wangzin : visions of the afterlife in Tibetan Buddhist popular literature / Bryan J. Cuevas -- Gone but not departed : the dead among the living in contemporary Buddhist Sri Lanka / John Clifford Holt -- Mulian in the land of snows and King Gesar in hell : a Chinese tale of parental death in its Tibetan transformations / Matthew T. Kapstein -- Chinese Buddhist death ritual and the transformation of Japanese kinship / Hank Glassmann -- Grave changes : scattering ashes in contemporary Japan / Mark Rowe -- Care for Buddhism : text, ceremony, and religious emotion in a monk's final journey / Jason A. Carbine. 
<br/><br/><br/>Electronic reproduction. <br/>Palo Alto, Calif. : <br/>ebrary, <br/>2013. <br/>Available via World Wide Web. <br/>Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries. 
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<br/><br/><label>Nat. Bib. No.: </label>GBA729337  bnb 
<br/><br/><label>Nat. Bib. Agency Control No.: </label> Uk 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Death--Religious aspects--Buddhism.<br/>Buddhism--Customs and practices.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Electronic books.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>BQ4487  / .B82 2007eb 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>294.3/423